Back in May, the Remix cofounders revealed they were reimagining Remix v3 from the ground up, and this past week at Remix Jam, they gave a sneak peek of it. It’s fair to say this new framework shouldn’t be called Remix at all because it’s departed so far from its origins: devs manually update state, it uses signals, routes are defined in a TS doc, and it will ship with a component library, for starters. Will it catch on, who knows?

Not to be outdone by React v19.2 last week, Next.js 16 beta debuted (with support for React 19.2 included). In addition to the latest version of React, Next.js 16 has also declared Turbopack, RSC support, and React Compiler all stable, and improved its caching system as well.

And Bun is back in the news with the release of Bun 1.3, and it’s a doozy of a minor version release. Bun wants to be a full-stack JavaScript runtime as it now includes a full-stack dev server, built in support for MySQL and Redis DBs, routing, and the ability to package an entire project into one executable for cross-platform support. Well done, Bun team!

Chapter Markers:

• 01:14 - Remix v3
• 10:38 - Next.js 16 beta
• 17:35 - Bun 1.3
• 24:42 - Firefox 144 released w/view transition support
• 25:19 - HBO changes TV channel names
• 28:00 - W3C has a new logo
• 31:25 - What’s making us happy

News:

• Paige - Bun 1.3
• Jack - Remix v3
• TJ - Next.js 16 beta

Lightning News:

• Firefox 144 released w/view transition support
• W3C has a new logo and the Gavin Belson signature from Silicon Valley 
• HBO changes TV channel names

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - The Gilded Age TV series
• Jack - KPop Demon Hunters
• TJ - Madison, WI

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It’s been a big week for React devs as the annual React Conf just wrapped up in Las Vegas. 

The biggest news? React and React Native are moving out from under Meta to a new React Foundation with an independent technical governance structure. The React Foundation’s mission will be to support the React community and ecosystem, and a board of directors will steer it going forward.

Also in time for React Conf, React 19.2 dropped, and it brings new features like partial pre-rendering, a new useEffectEvent hook, and an component that lets devs prioritize rendering  tomaintain state and make navigation faster.

Not to be outdone, Cloudflare announced a new RPC protocol called Cap’n Web, which is a pure TypeScript implementation. What makes Cap’n Web unique is that it supports bi-directional calling, promise pipelining, and lets users design RPC interfaces that look like regular JavaScript APIs.

Chapter Markers:

• 03:18 - React Foundation
• 07:10 - React Compiler 1.0 and React 19.2
• 17:13 - Cap’n Web
• 24:19 - Opera Neon
• 27:16 - The EU is considering cookie law changes
• 31:43 - The Internet Archive hits 1 trillion pages
• 33:33 - What’s making us happy

Links:

• Paige - Cap’n Web pure TypeScript RPC system
• Jack - Introducing the React Foundation
• TJ - React 19.2
• European policymakers may be fixing the cookie banner headache they created
• Opera wants you to pay $20 per month for its new AI browser
• Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived 

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - The Terminal List: Dark Wolf TV series
• Jack - Fender Acoustasonic guitar
• TJ - Portable stadium seat addition

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Anthropic dropped a bunch of good Claude Code updates. There’s a new a native VS Code extension, a v2 of the terminal version of Claude, code checkpoints, and it’s all powered by Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic’s best coding model yet.

On top of Claude’s glow up, the Google Chrome team launched a Chrome DevTools MCP. AI coding assistants will be able to debug web pages directly in a Chrome browser, including using DevTools to review network requests, console output and page structure, simulate user interactions, and even automate performance audits.

In a poorly planned move, the CEO of Vercel tweeted a picture of himself meeting with the controversial Israeli Prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. This sparked a massive online backlash, some Vercel employees quit, and many customers are leaving the hosting site and vowing to stop using Next.js, as well. 

Timestamps:

• 00:46 - Claude Sonnet and Claude Code updates
• 7:55 - Chrome DevTools MCP
• 13:50 - Vercel Drama
• 19:03 - State of JS survey is open
• 20:21 - GitHub’s plan to make npm more secure
• 25:30 - Meta builds data center the size of 70 football fields
• 29:04 - What’s making us happy

Links:

• Paige - Chrome DevTools MCP
• Jack - Vercel’s in hot water after a selfie with Benjamin Netanyahu
• TJ - Claude Code levels up
• State of JS survey is open
• GitHub’s got a plan to make npm more secure
• Meta builds AI data center the size of 70 football fields
• Paige - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3
• Jack - reactnorway.com

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CSS wizard, and now Staff Design Engineer at Shopify, Adam Argyle, joins us on this episode to talk about what web development interviews are like in 2025 and what folks can do to stand out today.

Links:

• Adam’s nerdy.dev website
• Adam’s Argyle Ink website
• Adam on YouTube
• Adam on Bluesky
• Adam on GitHub
• Adam on X
• Adam on LinkedIn
• https://nerdy.dev/cascading-secret-sauce 
• https://www.capcut.com 

What Makes Us Happy this Week:

• Paige - Why Is This Interesting (WITI) newsletter
• TJ - Strands NYT game
• Jack - Final Destination series
• Adam - EP-1320 medieval - Clues By Sam

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The supply chain attacks on npm continue and this week, Crowdstrike’s npm packages fell victim to the “Shai-Hulud” worm. 

To mitigate the potential of downloading these malicious packages, consider pinning specific package versions in JS projects and using 2FA to publish new package versions to npm.

Also this week, WebAssembly Specification (Wasm) released v3.0. This version dramatically expands the memory Wasm apps can use, supports multiple memory usage, and now allows garbage collection.

It’s been a while since we last covered LLM options for folks who want to run their own models locally or in the browser, so Jack gives a quick rundown of some of the best options out today. 

There’s WebLLM from MLC, MediaPipe from Google, and ONNX from Microsoft, and although none are easily interchangeable with another, if cost, privacy, or working offline are concerns of your LLM-enabled app, these may be good options to explore.

Chapter Markers:

• 00:58 - npm supply chain attack
• 16:28 - Wasm 3.0
• 23:34 - LLM options in the browser
• 34:41 - Jack’s experience at CascadiaJS and a discussion on the value of in-person conferences in 2025
• 41:54 - GitHub’s new MCP registry
• 43:26 - Microsoft Paint is getting project files
• 46:54 - What’s making us happy

Links:

• Paige - “Shai-Hulud” supply chain attack on npm continues against Crowdstrike npm packages and pnpm 10.16 minimumReleaseAge setting
• Jack - LLM options in the browser: WebLLM, MediaPipe, ONNX
• TJ - Wasm 3.0
• GitHub’s new MCP registry
• Microsoft Paint is getting its own Photoshop-like project files
• Paige - Great British Bake Off season 16 is back!
• Jack - Yoyos
• TJ - phishyurl.com

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Just 5 months ago we covered how Storybook 9 was in beta, and already Storybook 10 is in beta. The biggest change is that Storybook is going all in on ESM and dropping CJS support, which is making for some big performance gains and smaller bundle sizes.

This past week, npm suffered the largest supply chain attack in its history when a prolific OSS maintainer got phished. Luckily, the attack was noticed and reported within the hour and it looks like the hackers got next to nothing for their efforts, but it serves as another reminder to be extra careful before clicking links in emails.

In the same security vein, browser company Brave uncovered a security vulnerability in AI-browser Comet where malicious instructions on a web page could cause the agent to “go rogue” while it was being asked to summarize a page’s contents. Perplexity has since added more guardrails to try and mitigate this sort of thing, but be cognizant of the data and site access you’re giving to AI agents.

Timestamps:

• 1:12 - Storybook 10
• 7:53 - npm’s supply chain attack
• 17:24 - Brave discloses a security vulnerability in Comet
• 26:38 - You’re absolutely right!
• 35:26 - What’s making us happy

Links:

• Paige - Storybook 10 beta and Storybook 9 features
• Jack - npm just suffered the largest supply chain attack in its history
• TJ - Brave discloses a security vulnerability in Comet
• Someone made a customizable website to count how many times Claude Code says “You’re absolutely right!” in a day
• Paige - Silicon Valley TV show
• Jack - Shokz OpenComm2 bone conduction headphones
• TJ - macOS text message forwarding

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The Google vs. the US anti-trust lawsuit has finally drawn to a close, and (spoiler alert) Google doesn’t have to sell Chrome (or Android, for that matter). Going forward it will have to share certain search data with its rivals, and that’s about it, so this is definitely a big win for Google any way you look at it.

The popular terminal company Warp just unveiled Warp Code - a suite of features for shipping agent-generated code “all the way from prompt to production” via the Warp terminal. Warp Code offers an agent-driven terminal-first approach, with visual code review of agent changes, and a native file editor for minor edits in an attempt to eliminate the context switching devs have to do nowadays between their AI agents, IDEs, and GitHub. 

In a twist no one saw coming, SaaS behemoth Atlassian has bought AI-browser Dia (and its maker The Browser Company) for $610 million. Atlassian wants to position Dia as the AI-browser for users at work and time will tell if that bet pays off.

Timestamps:

• 02:34 - Google doesn't have to sell Chrome
• 10:17 - Warp Code
• 22:56 - Atlassian buys The Browser Company
• 31:48 - Anthropic raises $13 billion
• 34:54 - OpenAI is building an AI-powered hiring platform
• 39:42 - What’s making us happy 

Links:

• Paige - Atlassian buys The Browser Company for $610 million
• Jack - Warp terminal unveils Warp Code
• TJ - Google doesn’t have to sell Chrome after all
• TJ - Addy Osmani’s blog post on the history of Chrome
• Anthropic raises $13 billion Series F
• OpenAI is building an AI-powered hiring platform
• Paige - BenQ RD280U programming monitor
• Jack - Alien: Earth TV series
• TJ - Severance TV series

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Last episode, we lamented Claude’s lack of checkpoints to roll back code when it goes off the rails. Other devs feel the same, and this week Checkpoints for Claude Code debuted. It’s an MCP server that follows Claude Code, creating checkpoints when tasks are completed, allowing for easy reverts when needed.

The Bun team quietly pushed some nice new features in Bun v1.2. Highlights include: a unified SQL client with zero dependencies, native YAML file support, OS native credential storage for secrets, and a security scanner API that scans packages for vulnerabilities before installation.

And MCP-UI, a toolkit of interactive UI components for MCP has new features to support resources beyond text like embedded iframes and even raw HTML. Not all agents with MCP support can handle these new resources, but if they can, users can see product photos, data visualizations, and other mini sites right in their AI chat.

In the Lightning News section for this week, the folks at Deno leading the charge to get Oracle to relinquish its trademark for JavaScript need our help. Those legal bills aren’t going to pay themselves and Deno’s pockets aren’t nearly as deep as Oracle’s, so if you care about making JavaScript public domain (which it absolutely should be), please consider donating so they can keep fighting the good fight to free JS. Every little bit helps.

Timestamps:

• 00:48 - Claude Code thinking modes & checkpoints
• 10:33 - Bun v1.2
• 17:04 - MCP-UI updates
• 23:06 - Claude for Chrome
• 28:12 - Donate to help Deno fight Oracle
• 30:24 - What’s making us happy

Links:

• Paige - Bun v1.2
• Jack - MCP-UI updates
• TJ - Claude Code Thinking Modes & Claude Code Checkpoints
• Claude for Chrome
• Donate to help Deno keep fighting Oracle in court
• Paige - Zima Dental Pod
• Jack - Foundation TV series
• TJ - Babe Ruth commits fraud

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The latest craze for MCP this week? Instead of multiple MCP servers with different tools, use an MCP server that accepts programming code as tool inputs - a single “ubertool” if you will. AI agents like Claude Code are pretty good at writing code, but letting the agent write and execute code to invoke API functions instead of using a defined MCP server doesn’t seem like the most efficient use of LLM tokens, but it's another approach to consider.

In infrastructure news, there’s a library called Alchemy that lets devs write their Infrastructure as Code in pure TypeScript. No Terraform files, no dependencies, just async functions, stored in plain JSON files, that runs anywhere JS can run. For web devs, the future of IaC has arrived.

Next.js has made their last big release before v16 in the form of 15.5. Highlights of this minor release include: production turbopack builds, stable support for the Node.js runtime in middleware, fully typed routes, and deprecation warnings in preparation for Next.js 16.

Timestamps:

• 00:57 - Dangers of the “ubertool”
• 09:54 - Alchemy Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• 15:27 - Next.js 15.5
• 24:57 - How CodeRabbit AI got hacked
• 27:48 -

You just can’t keep TanStack out of the news for more than a few weeks before a new product appears. This week, it’s TanStack Devtools, which provides a centralized devtools panel of all the Tanstack libraries for streamlined DX and custom devtools support.

The State of CSS 2025 survey results are in, and highlights include: devs love the new `:has()` feature, Tailwind CSS continues to be the most popular CSS framework, and over 60% of respondents are still using Sass or SCSS in their web apps.

Continuing the CSS topics, Panda CSS, a CSS-in-JS library that debuted in 2023, just hit v1. Panda gained traction by being a CSS-in-JS library built for the server-first era (meaning RSC support), and it adds new features like static analysis, type safety, and support for modern CSS like cascade layers, JSX style props, and a `createStyleContext` API for cross-framework design systems.

Timestamps:

• 0:56 - TanStack Devtools
• 6:28 - State of CSS 2025 survey results
• 15:23 - Panda CSS v1
• 23:19 - Perplexity wants to buy Chrome from Google
• 25:52 - Google Gemini is having a mental breakdown
• 30:50 - Bolt.new unveils Bolt Cloud
• 35:14 - The dialog element’s closedby attribute
• 39:20 - What’s making us happy

Links:

• Paige - Panda CSS v1 
• Jack - TanStack Devtools
• TJ - State of CSS 2025 survey results
• Perplexity wants to buy Chrome from Google
• Google Gemini’s having a mental breakdown
• Bolt.new unveils Bolt Cloud
• The dialog element’s `closedby` attribute
• Paige - Express VPN
• Jack - A Psalm for the Wild Built book
• TJ - The Retrievals podcast and The Savannah Bananas baseball team

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